Documents in this collection differ from the loose documents in the “Free Negro” Registrations collection. Documents in this collection represent pages from bound registers recording free Black and multiracial people of Black descent across Virginia localities. Language for registering as a free person may have originated from a 1748 law for servants and enslaved people.

In 1793, the Virginia General Assembly specified that “free Negroes or mulattoes” were required to be registered and numbered in a book to be kept by the town clerk, which shall specify “age, name, colour, and stature, by whom, and in what court the said negro or mulatto was emancipated; or that such negro or mulatto was born free.” The process was extended to counties in 1803.This bound register often coincided with a loose certificate containing largely the same identifying information. The 1793 and 1803 laws reflect Virginia legislators’ reaction to a quickly growing free Black population across Virginia. Both the registration system and the process of renewal was enforced differently in the various Virginia localities. Thus, the information found in these registers may differ from year to year and across regions.

Although some clerks were already recording such features, an 1834 Act of Assembly made it a uniform requirement to record identifying marks and scars and the instrument of emancipation, whether by deed or will. In some instances, the clerk included additional information not required by law such as date or place of birth, the name of parents or spouses, trades and occupations, or where a person was emancipated. The amount of detail and type of information a clerk chose to record varied by locality and over time.

Descriptions included in this dataset are drawn directly from the original documents and may contain language which is now deemed offensive.

This dataset is an export from Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker ( https://www.tracktherecovery.org/)

The data in this dataset was last updated September 17, 2020. More current data is available at the project's GitHub repository: https://github.com/OpportunityInsights/EconomicTracker

From the Web site: The Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker (https://tracktherecovery.org) combines anonymized data from leading private companies – from credit card processors to payroll firms – to provide a real-time picture of indicators such as employment rates, consumer spending, and job postings across counties, industries, and income groups.

All of the data displayed on the Economic Tracker can be downloaded here. In collaboration with our data partners, we are making this data freely available in order to assist in efforts to inform the public, policymakers, and researchers about the real-time state of the economy and the effects of COVID-19.

Anyone is welcome to use this data; we simply we ask that you attribute our work by citing or linking to the accompanying paper and the Economic Tracker at https://tracktherecovery.org.

This dataset includes the number of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths for each health region in Virginia by the week of onset/specimen collection and by vaccination status.

Nation Incident Based Reporting System Offender data is 1 segment among 6 in NIBRS Group A Incident Report. This data set is derived from the Administrative Segment containing information on the time and location of each incident reported, in addition to internal metadata of the reports.

This data contains NIBRS reports from 1994 through the most recent complete reporting year.

Other NIBRS Data Segments:
• Victim: https://va-opioids.data.socrata.com/resource/v8hz-zj7n
• Arrestee:https://va-opioids.data.socrata.com/resource/t3a6-79sg
• Incident: https://va-opioids.data.socrata.com/resource/uc5j-xp8k
• Property: https://va-opioids.data.socrata.com/resource/iy5e-x83h
• Incident: https://va-opioids.data.socrata.com/resource/uc5j-xp8k

Tier 0 classifies this data resource as information that is neither sensitive nor proprietary, and intended for public access.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This provisional data is being provided as VDH OEMS continues to improve its data systems. The data on this page will continue to change throughout the data system improvement process and will stabilize over time. Thank you for your patience.

This dataset contains Emergency Medical Services (EMS) information for reported emergency response incidents that involve a substance or have suspected substance involvement. Data in this dataset has been provided by ESO on behalf of the Office of EMS.

Please be advised that the accuracy of the data within the EMS patient care reporting system is limited by system performance and the accuracy of data submissions received from EMS agencies. While each record in this dataset is for a single patient involved in an incident reported by an EMS agency, unique patients may be counted more than once in the dataset (e.g., if a patient was treated by two EMS agencies, that patient may be counted in the dataset twice). This data should not be interpreted as the number of unique substance use incidents reported by Virginia EMS agencies.

For instances where medication was administered to the patient, the response to the medication is provided, if reported by the EMS agency (e.g., if a patient received "naloxone" and the response of the patient for this administration of naloxone was reported as "Improved", then the record will show "naloxone with Improved response"). In instances where multiple medications were administered to the patient, the administrations and their associated responses are provided as a pipe-delimited list in the order that the patient received the medications.

This dataset has been classified as a Tier 0 asset by the Commonwealth Data Trust. Tier 0 classifies a data resource as information that is neither sensitive nor proprietary, and intended for public access.

Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) are programs certified by the United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that engage in supervised assessment and treatment, using methadone, buprenorphine, L-alpha acetyl methadol, or naltrexone, of members who are addicted to opioids. Opioid Treatment Services (OTS) includes the use of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in addition to the psychotherapy services to treat a member with an OUD.

OTP providers must be licensed by DBHDS as a provider of Medication Assisted Opioid Treatment/Opioid Treatment Services and contracted by the Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and the DMAS fee-for-service Contractor as an Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services (ARTS) OTP Provider.

For treatments, take home doses have a maximum 28-day limit dispensing at a time and must be approved by the State Opioid Treatment Authorities (SOTA).

For more information, see the Virginia Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) site regarding take-home treatment programs: https://vamedicaid.dmas.virginia.gov/global-search?keys=Take-home or the DMAS OTS Manual https://www.dmas.virginia.gov/media/3765/ots-manual.pdf.

This dataset has been classified as a Tier 0 asset by the Commonwealth Data Trust. Tier 0 classifies a data resource as information that is neither sensitive nor proprietary, and intended for public access.

This data contains incidents reported to the Danville Police Department. For more information please see:
https://www.danville-va.gov/629/Reports-Incidents-Police-Activity

Section P of Item 115 of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, 2022 Special Session I, commonly known as the Budget Bill, establishes that the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) may publish only anonymized versions of the map, showing locations served and unserved by broadband without reference to any specific provider. For the purposes of this statewide broadband map, the definition of 'broadband' means internet access at speeds equal to or greater than the broadband internet speed benchmark set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC's current definition of broadband, set in February 2015, establishes the speed threshold at which internet service is considered broadband at 25 megabits per second (Mbps) for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads. In accordance with this reference and definition, DHCD has released the shapefile below which provides those locations unserved by broadband at this speed threshold.

Medically managed intensive inpatient services (ASAM Level 4.0) are defined by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) as acute care hospitals and are the designated setting for medically managed intensive inpatient treatment. Medically managed intensive inpatient services offer medically directed acute withdrawal management and related treatment designed to alleviate acute emotional, behavioral, cognitive, or biomedical distress resulting from, or occurring with, a member's use of alcohol and other drugs. Such service settings offer medically directed acute withdrawal management and related treatment designed to alleviate acute emotional, behavioral, cognitive, or biomedical distress, or all of these, resulting from, or co-occurring with, a member's use of alcohol or other drugs with the exception of tobacco-related disorders, caffeine abuse or dependence, or non-substance-related disorders.

For more information, see the Virginia Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) site regarding in Inpatient Detox ASAM 4.0 treatment programs: https://vamedicaid.dmas.virginia.gov/global-search?keys=ASAM%204.0&page=1 or the DMAS OTS Manual https://www.dmas.virginia.gov/media/3765/ots-manual.pdf.

This dataset has been classified as a Tier 0 asset by the Commonwealth Data Trust. Tier 0 classifies a data resource as information that is neither sensitive nor proprietary, and intended for public access.

As of 5/18/2023 this dataset will be updated weekly on Tuesdays with a weekly granularity.

This dataset includes the VA health planning region, sewershed (i.e., wastewater treatment facility service area), sample collection date, start of sample collection week (Sunday-Saturday), sample type, sample matrix, detection, population served by sewershed, daily flow associated with collected sample, viral concentration in sample, calculated viral load in sample, and report date. This dataset was first published on 5/18/2023. The data set increases in size weekly and as a result, the dataset may take longer to update; however, it is expected to be available by 12:00 noon. When you download the data set, the sewersheds will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by health region. The sample collection dates will be sorted in ascending order, meaning that the earliest date will be at the top. The most recent date will be at the bottom of each sewershed’s data.